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Skype Translator can translate your voice conversations in real time in 9 languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. It can also translate your instant messages in more than 50 languages, from Arabic to Yucatec Maya.

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Office has been downloaded 340 million times on iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

Microsoft donates an average of $2.6 million in software each day to more than 86,000 nonprofits around the world.

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Microsoft’s employee giving efforts have donated more than $1 billion to more than 31,000 charities.

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Five Microsoft researchers have won the A.M. Turing Award: Leslie Lamport, Chuck Thacker, Jim Gray, Butler Lampson and Tony Hoare. Often called computer science’s “Nobel Prize,” the Turing Award is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.

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There are 669,000 apps for phones, desktops and tablets in the Windows Store. Hundreds more are added every day.

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246 million people with sight loss face daily challenges getting around. Microsoft is developing technology to help change that.

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Nearly 1 in 3 Azure virtual machines are Linux.

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Microsoft has helped rescue and clean more than 10 million malware-infected computers while working with partners to disrupt malware tied to criminal organizations committing consumer, financial and advertising fraud.

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Self-confessed 'Windows Phone addict' Rudy Huyn's apps have been downloaded more than 16 million times, making him one of the platform's most prolific developers.

If you were to line up pixels from all the aerial imagery within Bing Maps, you could make four round trips to Venus with pixels to spare.

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The Microsoft Art Collection includes about 4,728 pieces, including a chandelier by Dale Chihuly and a piece of the Berlin Wall. It’s one of the largest corporate art collections in the world.

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With more than $12 billion in commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate, we are on track to achieve our goal of $20 billion in fiscal year 2018.

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More than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition.

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Sixty-three percent of American households are home to at least one person who plays video games regularly (3+ hours a week). The average age of a game player is 35 years old. Women aged 18+ represent about 31 percent of the game-playing population. Boys 18 or younger make up about 17 percent.